NOTES PROM A JOURNEY TO NEPAL. 
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lensts. As my journey through the forest was hurried, my failure to 
iiecord them by no means proves their absence: but it is quite 
possible that Schleicher a trijugay Buchanania latifoliay Pterocarpus 
Marsupiumy and Bassia lati folia are really absentees : they are not 
Sikkim trees. 
Other woody plants which I noticed, and which are not named in the 
Kberi list are : — Thespesia LampaSy Ahroma augustay Spondias axilla 
arisy Anogeissus latifoliay Symplocos spicatay Nyctanthes Arbor- 
tristisy Ichnocarpus frutescens and Antidesma diandrum. A few of 
these, which are almost all shrubs, were common enough to be 
features of the undergrowth, e. g.y the Thespesia, Anogeissus, Symplo- 
cos, Nyctanthes and Antidesma : I think that only Spondias axillaris 
and Symplocos spicata can be absent from the Kheri Sil forests. 
The Sil forests we know to extent westwards under the hills nearly 
to the exit of the Sutlej. Many of the associated plants have almost 
the same western limit. 
Eastern plants in the Pine forest. 
Associated with the pines on the Chorea Gh^ti are plants which 
have no place in the Sdl forest, and the dispersal of which is more 
restricted, among them Meliosma simplicifoliay Begonia gigantea, 
Musssenda Roxburghii, Rubia angustifolia, Vernonia subsessilis, 
and Echinacanthus I ongi stylus are -distinctly eastern plants. Blumea 
obovata is knoWn only from this one place. 
Markedly eastern nature of the vegetation of the gorge of Bhdinsa 
Dnhdn. 
The vegetation of the damp gorge of Bhdinsa Duh^n is yet more 
eastern still in character than the forest of the Chorea Ghdti as witness 
the following plants found \.\iQx^\^Brachystemma calycinum, Schoepjia 
/ragrans, Natsiatum herpeticum, Shuteria vestita, Dalbergia volubi- 
Us, Mezoneurum cucullatum. Acacia concinna. Acacia pennata, 
Albizzia luctda, Duabanga sonneratioides, Hedyoiis scandens. Tore- 
nia fragrans, Utricularia orbiculata, Strobilanthes sabinianus, 
Elatostema rupestre, Otochilus alba, Arundina bambusifolia. Panda- 
nus furcatus, and Rhaphidophora~glauca, 
In appearance this vegetation distinctly suggests that of the hills 
below Tindhdria in tKe Darjeeling District. 
X^ultivation belt ; its common plants. 
I pass on to the cultivation area. Forest vegetation in it is limited 
to steep slopes : elsewhere spread terraced fields, Campbell (Trans. 
